Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-10-08

managed to advantage. There are many
families now here who make good livings
| from five acres of Strawberries blackberries
or raspberries. With Judgment in the
| selection of soils and with skill and in
dustry in cultivation and marketing, from
| 5000 to $500 worth Of berries rer acre can
branch of horticulture can be realized
| much sooner than from tree fruits.
THE EARLY FRUITS.
Fruit-grewing dates back to the early
| days of the American occupation. Almost
the first thing done by the settler was to
plant out fruit trees and vines. Ali varie-
| ties of fruit trees were planted, and with
the most satisfactory results. Apples OF
good size and favor are grown even in the
valleys, but on the foothills, to an altitude
of 5000 feet, the best apples are grown
Every variety of peach is grown on the
| valley soils, on the rolling lands, and on
| the slopes of the foothills, and they cannot
be exceled in any country for the quantity
and quality of the yield. The same may
| be said of the production of pears, plums,
prunes. cherries, apricots and nectarines.
All these are grown with the
GREATEST SUCCESS
Ard pecuniary profit in San Joaquin
county, and the orchard products are in
demand in all the vast country from the
eastern base OF the Sierra Nevada to the
Atlantic ocean. The sixty million people
OF the East are buying and eating our
fruits, and the seventy millions of the next
census will demand them, and the ninety
millions of the next succeeding census will
| make still further demand, and so on till
the population of the country demands
more than this coast can produce.
CITRUS AND OTHER CHOICE PRODUCTS.
1t should be borne in mind that. so far
as has been demonstrated, there is 10 other
portion of the United States which can
produce good wines, raisins, olives, olive
oil, figs, prunes, oranges, lemons or lines.
Florida has produced citrus fruits to con-
siderable extent, but the winters there
seem to be such as to make the production
uncertain and the business hazardous OF
all these articles We are large importers; we
consume much more OF them than we pro-
duce, and sound economy demands that we
produce all that we consume, at least.
With these facts in view, there seems no
reason to fear lack of markets for all
of those products that all the home-seekers
can produce.
THE PRICES OF LAND
In this district are remarkably low. con
sidering the fertility of the soil, the abund-
ance of timber and water, the pleasure and
profit of the winterless climate, the means
of transportation and the profit which can
be made from the land Relatively, these
lands are as cheap or cheaper than in other
parts of the State. On the rich alluvial
lands the prices range from $40 to 500 per
| acre, and when put out to vegetables, small
fruits, orchards or vineyards these lands
will
PAY THE PURCHASE PRICE IN ONE YEAR.
The lands of the brown soils can be had
| from $40 to $50 per acre, and are exceed
ingly cheap at these figures. On the foot
| hill slopes and in the foothill valleys land
| is much cheaper. 1t is a fact as true as
holy writ that the best land is the
cheapest at any price. Ten acres of first
class land is worth more than 100 acres of
third-class land. Buy the best wherever
| it is to be had, regardless of locality, but
be sure that there are markets and trans
portation.
CHOICE VINEYARD LANDS.
IEere IS no better vineyard land than
that of San joaquin county. 1t is now
more than third of century since the
first vineyards were planted, and through
all that time these old vineyards have
grown and produced great crops of grapes.
The first vines were the Mission variety
and after 35 years are still to be seen,
as strong, vigorous and prolific as ever.
Since the American occupation in 1918
there have been large number of vine
yards of the better varieties of grapes set
out on all the different varieties of soil in
this district.
The Ell Pinal Vineyard, owned by the
West Bros, is one of the most famoas in
the State. 1t is many years since the first
vines of this vineyard were planted. and
they show luxuriant growth and are
prolific and continuous bearers. The wine
and brandy from this vineyard has na-
tional reputation second to none. The
Messrs. West are among the most intelli-
gent grape-gr Jwers and wine makers OF the
coast, and are entitled to great praise for
their efforts in demonstrating the capacity
of these soils for vineyards.
There are many other vineyards in the
county which for years have made golden
return for the labor bestowed upon them